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Carolyn Jones
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Reporter at CalMatters. Formerly EdSource, SF Chronicle, Oakland Tribune
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Rural California gets a lifeline in school funding as Congress restores money it cut
Federal rural schools funding goes to counties with large swaths of untaxable federal land. California is set to receive over $40 million.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Trump’s budget includes nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which funds a wide swath of services to disabled children, including speech, occupational and physical therapy, wheelchairs, in-home aides and medical care. bit.ly/4iASatw

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From left, Jack Deacy, his daughter Lena Deacy, and Lindsay Crain at their home in Culver City on Dec. 1, 2025. The family fears potential Medicaid cuts because Lena, who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and other medical conditions, relies on Medicaid-funded services for her daily care and well-being. Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Cal Bears get early bowl invitation, will spend Christmas Eve in Hawaii trib.al/ndcygRX
Cal Bears get early bowl invitation, will spend Christmas Eve in Hawaii
The Cal Bears will face Hawaii on Dec. 24 with a chance at their first eight-win season since 2019.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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California’s K-12 students showed moderate progress academically last year, with some bright spots but otherwise plateauing after years of post-pandemic improvements, according to the new California School Dashboard released today. bit.ly/4qSf0k5

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Test scores improved for California K-12 students, but other performance indicators were stagnant. Photo by Shelby Knowles for CalMatters. Hed: Has student improvement plateaued in California? New dashboard shows modest gains
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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“Nonetheless, about 85% of teachers and students use AI in the classroom, CDT found [in recent research]. Teachers use it to organize lesson plans and grade papers, & students use it to do things like research and brainstorming.” calmatters.org/educa... Cc: CalMatters' @carolynjones100.bsky.social
His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?
A Chrome browser tool features a movable bubble that provides information without typing a prompt, spurring a rise in AI cheating on tests.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Keeping up with students’ methods of cheating has always been a cat-and-mouse game for teachers. But some now say that AI tools, particularly Google Lens, have made it impossible to enforce academic integrity in the classroom. bit.ly/3Lww7rK

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An ethnic studies class at Santa Monica High School in Los Angeles on March 28, 2023. Photo by Lauren Justice for CalMatters. “We want teenagers to think independently, voice their opinions, learn to think critically... But if we give them a tool that allows them to not develop those skills, I’m not sure we’re actually helping them.” William Heuisler, a high school ethnic studies teacher in Los Angeles. He decided to ditch technology altogether in his classroom and return to the basics: pencil and paper. 
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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In case you’re wondering 👉🏽 www.didprop50pass.com
Did Prop. 50 pass?
Find out if Prop. 50 passed and see how redistricting could shift congressional representation in California and nationwide
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November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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This seemed like a political fantasy four months ago: California voters approve redistricting plan that could net five more House seats for Democrats
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California Prop 50 passes in clear rebuke of Trump
The close of polls at 8 p.m. marked the culmination of a remarkably short election season launched by Gov. Gavin Newsom over the summer in response to Texas Republicans' gerrymandering.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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State education officials found that OUSD created a discriminatory environment in three incidents, including the distribution of a map of the Middle East without Israel. An Arab American organization says the complainants conflated criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
California finds Oakland Unified discriminated against Jewish students 
State education officials found that OUSD created a discriminatory environment in three incidents, including the distribution of a map of the Middle East without Israel. An Arab American organization says the complainants conflated criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Head Start programs begin closing in California due to shutdown
One California Head Start program has closed and three more are about to. More closures are expected soon as the shutdown continues.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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California has 500,000 young people jobless or not in school. Men are especially at risk, facing disconnection and isolation at levels the governor has described as a “crisis” (and blamed his own party for ignoring them) calmatters.org/economy/2025...
Half a million young Californians aren’t in school or work. Most are men
In California thousands of young men are in crisis — not working and not in school. Helping them requires a multi-faceted approach.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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“We weren’t looking for the top students. We were looking for the disengaged kids,” said Staci Bynum, CART’s dean of curriculum and instruction who’s been at the school since its inception. “The C kid is going to excel here.”
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Engineering student Ashlan Huang works on constructing a robot in an engineering class at the Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) in Clovis on Oct. 6, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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California wants to overhaul high school learning. This school is leading the way
This California high school features multi-hour labs that blend topics and the curriculum is tailored to students’ interests.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"Great people," including tech moguls Marc Benioff and Jensen Huang, appealed to the president directly to get him to call off a planned operation in San Francisco after immigration agents started mobilizing in the East Bay on Wednesday @carolynjones100.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...
Trump calls off expected immigration show-of-force in San Francsico
President Trump name-dropped Bay Area tech executives when he called off an immigration enforcement surge in San Francisco. Gov. Newsom was prepared to sue over a potential National Guard deployment.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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California has a special election Nov. 4. Wondering how to vote? @calmatters.org has answers! www.tiktok.com/@calmatters/...
Watch your (snail) mailbox: California’s secretary of state has started sending out official voter guides in the mail starting Sept. 25. What other questions do you have about the special election? W...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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If Toni Atkins is elected governor next year, she would oversee a state contract that puts money in her own pocket. It’s just one potential conflict of interest with her spouse’s consulting firms, which have dozens of clients that lobby state government.
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State contracts send cash to Atkins’ household as she runs for California governor
If she were elected governor, former Senate leader Toni Atkins would oversee contracts with her spouse's many consulting firms.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The Senate is debating the recission bill that would claw back appropriations for foreign aid and public broadcasting, if you care to watch on C-Span.

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The Senate will continue work on the House-passed $9.4 billion spending cuts in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding already approved by the Congress.
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July 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being, @carolynjones100.bsky.social writes calmatters.org/education/20...
Head Start gets a reprieve from Trump budget cuts, but the fight isn’t over
After President Donald Trump’s early budget eliminated the Head Start program, advocates led a nationwide lobbying effort to save it.
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May 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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At least $33 million in supplemental funding for rural California counties with large swaths of federal land that can’t be taxed was not included in the recent federal budget, @carolynjones100.bsky.social reports calmatters.org/education/k-...
Rural California schools and roads lose millions in federal funding after latest cuts
Last year the nationwide total was $253 million, barely a blip in the overall federal budget, but a crucial funding source for rural communities that have limited options for raising revenue.
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March 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM